MEDICAL PROGRESS AND NATIONAL HEALTH.

This article focuses on medical progress and public health in the U.S. In the past half century, medicine has advanced enormously toward more definite knowledge, and consequent better control, of disease. While people have learned to apply psychiatry to physical ills, they have also learned to apply physical medicine to mental disease. Insulin, metrazol and electric-shock treatments, as well as surgery of the frontal lobes of the brain, have served to link psychiatric problems with those of the anatomy of the nervous system. Researcher Hudson Hoagland, of the Worcester, Massachusetts, Foundation for Experimental Biology, has discovered that in schizophrenics the pituitary gland, under stress, fails to stimulate the adrenal gland to pour an increased flow of adrenal cortical hormones into the blood.